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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/11",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "False statements",
  "text": "(1) A person who knowingly or recklessly makes, or causes to be made a statement or furnishes information which is false or misleading in any material particular for the purpose of—\n(a) obtaining the issue of a permit;\n(b) obtaining the variation of a permit;\n(c) preventing the issue or variation of a permit;\n(d) procuring or preventing the imposition of a condition in relation to a permit,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in operation at 5.10.2015 by S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/11/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:52.623933+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}